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MP Tornai, JE Bowsher, CN Archer, J Peter, RJ Jaszczak, RE Coleman, LR MacDonald, BE Patt, JS Iwanczyk. "A New Approach to Application Specific Emission Tomography (ASET) of the Breast." Presented at 1st Topical Symposium on Functional Breast Imaging with Advanced Detectors., Rome, Italy, 18-20 April, 2001.

MP Tornai, JE Bowsher, CN Archer, J Peter, LR MacDonald, BE Patt, JS Iwanczyk, RJ Jaszczak, RE Coleman. "Dedicated Breast Imaging with an ASET: Application Specific Emission Tomograph." Presented at the 48th Society of Nuclear Medicine Meeting, Toronto, Canada 23-27 June, 2001, and published in J. Nucl. Med. 42(5):97P. 2001.

MP Tornai, JE Bowsher, RJ Jaszczak, KL Greer, PH Hardenbergh, RE Coleman. "Dedicated PICO-SPECT: An Approach to Clinical Breast Imaging." Presented at the 48th Society of Nuclear Medicine Meeting, Toronto, Canada 23-27 June, 2001, and published in J. Nucl. Med. 42(5):207-208P. 2001.

CN Archer, MP Tornai, JE Bowsher, SD Metzler, RJ Jaszczak. "Implementation and Initial Characterization of Acquisition Orbits about a Penduluous Breast Using the ASET System." Presented at 2001 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, Durham, NC, 4-7 October, 2001, and pubished in Ann. Biomed. Engin. 29(1):P9.4.

SD Metzler, JE Bowsher, MP Tornai, RJ Jaszczak. "Computational Determination of Orlov Volumes." Presented at 2001 Conference on Fully Three-Dimensional Image Reconstruction, Pacific Grove, CA, 30 Oct. – 2 Nov., 2001.

MP Tornai, JE Bowsher, CN Archer, J Peter, LR MacDonald, BE Patt, JS Iwanczyk. "A Compact Dedicated Device for Dual Modality Radionuclide Imaging of the Breast with an Application Specific Emission and Transmission Tomograph (ASETT)." Presented at 2001 Annual RSNA Meeting, Chicago, IL, 25-30 Nov., 2001, and published in Radiology, 221P:555. 2001.

MP Tornai, JE Bowsher, CN Archer, RJ Jaszczak. "Feasibility of Application Specific Emission and Transmission Tomography (ASETT) of the Breast." Presented at the 49th Society of Nuclear Medicine Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 15-19 June, 2002, and published in J. Nucl. Med. 43(5):12P. 2002.

MP Tornai. "Dedicated Breast Cancer Imaging with an Application Specific Emission Tomograph (ASET)." 2002 Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Conference, La Jolla, CA, 8-11 August, 2002.

RJ Jaszczak, JE Bowsher, SD Metzler, MP Tornai. "Incomplete Circular Orbit SPECT Breast Phantom Imaging Using Pinhole, Cone Beam, and Parallel Hole Collimation." Presented at the 2002 World Congress on Nuclear Medicine, 29 Sept. – 4 Oct., 2002, Santiago, Chile.

MP Tornai, CN Archer, JE Bowsher, BE Patt, JS Iwanczyk, LR MacDonald, K Parnham. "Feasibility of Full-Field Single Photon Emission Mammotomography Using a Novel CZT Detector." Presented at the 2002 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium & Medical Imaging Conference, Norfolk, VA, 12-16 Nov. 2002, and published in 2002 IEEE Conference Record NSS/MIC, 3:1901.

ML Bradshaw, RL McKinley, E Samei, CN Archer, MP Tornai. "Initial X-ray Design Considerations for Application Specific Emission and Transmission Tomography (ASETT) of the Breast." Presented at the 50th Society of Nuclear Medicine Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 21-25 June, 2003, and published in J. Nucl. Med. 44(5):287P.

RL McKinley, MP Tornai, E Samei, ML Bradshaw. "Development of an Optimal X-ray Beam for Dual-Mode Emission and Transmission Mammotomography." Presented at the 2nd International Conf. on Imaging Technologies in Biomedical Sciences, Milos, Greece, 26-30 May 2003.

MP Tornai, CN Archer, ML Bradshaw, JE Bowsher, LR MacDonald, BE Patt, JS Iwanczyk. "A Compact Gamma Camera with 1.3mm Quantized Elements for Dedicated Emission Mammotomography." Presented at the 2nd International Conf. on Imaging Technologies in Biomedical Sciences, Milos, Greece, 26-30 May 2003.

MP Tornai. "A Novel SPECT System for Breast Imaging." Presented at the 2003 Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Conference, La Jolla, CA, 7-10 August, 2003.

MP Tornai, CN Archer, JE Bowsher. "Non-Invasive 3-Dimensional Molecular Imaging of Early Breast Cancer with a Dedicated Mammotomograph." Presented at the 26th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, San Antonio, TX, 3-6 Dec. 2003.

CN Archer, MP Tornai, RL McKinley. "Evaluation of 3D Acquisition Orbits with an Emission Mammotomography System Incorporating a Full-Field CZT Detector." Presented at the 7th International Workshop on Digital Mammography, Durham, NC, 18-21 June, 2004.

RL McKinley, MP Tornai, E Samei, JE Bowsher. "Quasi-Monochromatic Beam Measurements for Dedicated Cone-Beam Mammotomography of an Uncompressed Breast." Presented at the 7th International Workshop on Digital Mammography, Durham, NC, 18-21 June, 2004.

MP Tornai, RL McKinley, E Samei, CE Floyd, ML Bradshaw. "Effects of Uncompressed Breast Composition and Thickness on Image Quality Using a Quasi-Monochromatic Beam for Computed Mammotomography." Presented at the 7th International Workshop on Digital Mammography, Durham, NC, 18-21 June, 2004.

MP Tornai, CN Brzymialkiewicz, RL McKinley, JE Bowsher. "Development of Dedicated 3D Molecular Breast Imaging with SPECT and Quasi-Monochromatic X-ray Computed Mammotomography." Presented at the Workshop on Alternatives to Mammography, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 18 – 21 Sept. 2004.

RL McKinley, MP Tornai, CN Brzymialkiewicz, P Madhav, E Samei, JE Bowsher. "Analysis of a Novel Offset Cone-Beam Transmission Imaging System for Attenuation Correction of SPECT in a Proposed Dual Modality Dedicated Breast Mammotomography System." Presented at the 2004 Workshop on the Nuclear Radiology of Breast Cancer, Rome, Italy, 22 – 23 Oct. 2004.

MP Tornai, CN Brzymialkiewicz, RL McKinley, JE Bowsher, E Samei, P Madhav, SJ Cutler, DJ Crotty, CE Floyd. "3D Molecular Breast Imaging." Presented at Duke Frontiers 2005, Durham, NC, 10 May, 2005.

CN Brzymialkiewicz, MP Tornai. "Novel Three-dimensional Acquisition Orbits with a Dedicated Emission Mammotomography System," Presented at the DOD Era of Hope Conference, 8-11 June 2005, Philadelphia, PA.

MP Tornai, Y-C Tai, RL McKinley, M Janecek, H Wu. "Initial Design Considerations of a Dedicated Hybrid Mammotomograph for Fully 3D X-ray CT and High Resolution PET Using Object Magnification." Presented at the 52nd Society of Nuclear Medicine Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 18-22 June, 2005, and published in J. Nucl. Med. 46(5). 2005.

P Madhav, SJ Cutler, RL McKinley, MP Tornai. "MTF Characterizationof 3D Volumetric Breast Imaging Systems with Dedicated Emission and Dedicated Transmission Computed Mammotomography." Presented at National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) T32 Grantee Meeting, Washington, DC, 16 June, 2006.

M Tornai, P Madhav, D Crotty, S Cutler, R McKinley, K Perez, J Bowsher. "Initial Hybrid SPECT-CT System for Dedicated Fully-3D Breast Imaging." Presented at The Society of Nucl. Med. 54th Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 2-6 June 2007, and published in J. Nucl. Med. 48(5). 2007.

MP Tornai, P Madhav, DJ Crotty, SJ Cutler, KL Perez, RL McKinley, JE Bowsher. "Application of volumetric molecular breast imaging with a dedicated SPECT-CT mammotomograph." Presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Minneapolis, MN,  22-26 July 2007, and published in Med. Phys. 34(6):2597.

SJ Cutler, MP Tornai. "Automation and Preclinical Evaluation of a Dedicated Emission Mammotomography System for Fully 3-D Molecular Breast Imaging." Presented at the 2008 DOD Era of Hope Conference on Breast Cancer, Baltimore, MD, 25-28 June 2008.

P Madhav, MP Tornai. "Development and Optimization of a Dedicated, Hybrid Dual-Modality SPECT-CmT System for Improved Breast Lesion Diagnosis." Presented at the 2008 DOD Era of Hope Conference on Breast Cancer, Baltimore, MD, 25-28 June 2008.

P Madhav, SJ Cutler, DJ Crotty, KL Perez, RL McKinley, PK Marcom, T Wong, MP Tornai. "Pilot Patient Studies Using a Dedicated Dual-Modality SPECT-CT System for Breast Imaging." Presented at the 50th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Houston, TX,  27-31 July 2008, and published in Med. Phys. 35(6):2894.

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